IN WASHINGTON, NO MEETING FOR GUL AND PELOSI
Hurriyet, Turkey
Feb 7 2007
With Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul in the US capital Washington,
DC for official visits, it has been a noticeable gap in his schedule
that he has not been able to meet with the new Speaker of the House
of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi.
Pelosi, who has voiced her support for the same Armenian bill on
genocide which Gul is trying to work against, rejected a request from
the Turkish Foreign Ministry for a meeting with Gul, with claims that
her schedule during Gul’s visit to the US capital would be too busy
to fit him in.
In Ankara meanwhile, the US Ambassador to Turkey, Ross Wilson,
has announced that he will be going to the US in March to try and
contribute to administration efforts to prevent the Armenian bill from
passing through the Congress. Speaking two nights ago at a reception
in the US Embassy in Ankara, Wilson reiterated previous statements
that the Bush administration is against the Armenian bill, and that
they are making an effort to stop it from passing.